I am looking for data on how many times a certain television show has airred since it first started its run on television. I am hoping to find information that includes reruns and syndication as well. I have tried Google but I can’t seem to find what i am looking for. Is this kind of information even available?
I don’t know if it’s publicly and readily available, but unions like SAG and WGA would have that information, since their members get paid out based on how many times the shows air, including reruns and syndication. I’m not sure there’s any reason for them to keep the information secret; they might give it out if you ask. I don’t know that for sure, though.
In any case, you’d have to look it up per episode. Different episodes of a given show will have been rerun vastly different numbers of times. You’d also have to look it up by broadcasting station - some stations will have rerun it many times, and others not at all.
My guess is that these details will make the search more trouble than it’s worth.
The SAG database has that information, since there are many actors in only a subset of the episodes of a show. SAG at least has international showings also. I know this because my daughter got a residual check for four cents when an episode of a soap opera she was an extra on ran in Italy.